Episodes

  • Episode II.30 - Greek Drama III: Aristophanes

    Episode II.30 - Greek Drama III: Aristophanes
    May 16 2024
    Aristophanes mocks and derides the latest developments in Athenian society, and lambasts the motives for the seemingly endless Peloponnesus War. His play, The Clouds, takes aim at Socrates and all philosophers.
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    30 mins
  • Episode X.001 - Introduction to the Americas

    Episode X.001 - Introduction to the Americas
    May 10 2024
    Native Americans are the real westerners. As an outsider, in this series, I investigate the history and culture of more than ten thousand years in the Americas.
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    10 mins
  • Episode XII.001 - Introduction to the Western Traditions Curriculum

    Episode XII.001 - Introduction to the Western Traditions Curriculum
    May 8 2024
    Implementing the Western Traditions Podcast as a personal curriculum. For homeschool or for adults.
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    17 mins
  • Episode II.29 - Greek Philosophy II: Introduction to Socrates

    Episode II.29 - Greek Philosophy II: Introduction to Socrates
    May 2 2024
    Introduction to Socrates and Plato and the tetralogies of dialogues. First Principles. Post-war Athens. Analysis of Plato’s dialogue Euthyphro.
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    50 mins
  • Episode XIB.001 - Introduction to the Old Testament

    Episode XIB.001 - Introduction to the Old Testament
    Apr 25 2024
    The Bible is our book. No matter which religious tradition to which you belong, even if you are non-religious, this is your book. This is your patrimony, just as the Iliad and the Odyssey and the works of Aristotle and Plato are your inheritance.
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    24 mins
  • Episode IX.04 - The Dead Internet

    Episode IX.04 - The Dead Internet
    Apr 19 2024
    On the periphery of this online cemetery, we grubby humans rifle through the garbage, looking for a movie on Netflix or flicking past several hundred TikTok’s, all the while, beyond the gates of the graveyard, the bots replicate and babble to one another - the animated, digital ruins of a society that once built pyramids and dared to cross the oceans in ships powered by the wind.
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    24 mins
  • Episode II.28 - The Peloponnesian War V: The Fall of Athens

    Episode II.28 - The Peloponnesian War V: The Fall of Athens
    Apr 14 2024
    Alcibiades finally comes to power. Lysander leads Sparta to victory. The long walls of Athens come tumbling down.
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    40 mins
  • Episode II.27 - Ancient Greek Religion

    Episode II.27 - Ancient Greek Religion
    Apr 8 2024
    The mystery religions of Ancient Greece: Eleusis, Orphism and Christianity. From the Kykeon of Demeter to the Eucharist of Jesus.
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    55 mins